Dilon's Opinion

F or 18 years of my life I have been a Catholic. Born and raised in a middle-class Catholic family, as a kid I took pride in my religion. Let’s be honest, compared to the options I had here in India, birth in a western religion saved me from far greater embarrassing things others were doing and following. Plus, it was “cool” being a Christian, until I realized that it’s not. If other  religions were a sham and people their worshiped false gods, mine wasn’t following any truer or believable god. My family and the church raised me by comparing our god to the other less believable gods, strengthening my faith in process. My 10-year-old brain was convinced about existence of the god, and was too afraid to think that there isn’t one. And most importantly, my god didn’t mind me eating a steak or a pork chop, which obviously made my Christian god the true god.   But apart from few phases of either extensive brain washing or a tough heart break, my religion even with all the liber...

Opinion | There is rapid increase in popularity of IGTV and Youtube creators whose entire gimmick is to take offence on any trivial incident and abuse the person they deem responsible. The new genre led by likes of “Hindustani bhau” is increasingly becoming popular and encouraging others to step in and to curse there hearts out on social media. The then joy of watching someone abuse a person which most of us hate or don’t care of, is fun initially. But makes me wonder, have we reached a point where just someone cursing makes the content watchable? And why such genre even exists in our country in which hate and vulgarity are sold causally? Initially these videos were targeted mostly on Pakistani’s, which were watched and shared as generic video of Pakistani hate we all have been collectively sharing for decades. With all the views, likes and attention, these “creators” started looking for material within the country and it wasn’t hard to fetch. The material 14.2% + of India wa...